I hope this sets a precedent

Texas woman awarded nearly $230K after getting 153 robocalls from Time Warner
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015, 8:45 AM Mark Lennihan/APA federal judge awarded a Texas woman nearly $230,000 after Time Warner harassed her with 153 robocalls.
NEW YORK — A federal judge has awarded nearly $230,000 to a Texas woman, saying a cable company harassed her with 153 robocalls even after she complained about the wrong numbers.

U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in Manhattan ordered Time Warner Cable Inc. on Tuesday to make the $229,500 payment to Araceli King of Irving, Texas, citing the New York-based company's "particularly egregious" behavior as it violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991.

King sued last year, saying she had repeatedly asked the company to stop making the calls.

Susan Leepson, a Time Warner spokeswoman, said the company is reviewing its options and determining how to proceed.

Hellerstein said he tripled the $1,500 penalty for each call because Time Warner's actions were "particularly egregious" since it continued making the calls even after King complained in a seven-minute phone conversation in October 2013 with a company representative that the calls to her phone were apparently meant for a customer she did not know.

The judge noted that 74 of the calls were made after Time Warner received a copy of King's lawsuit in March 2014.

The company's "recurring theme" in its legal arguments was that it was an unwitting victim of an unpredictable federal law that was not intended to turn an innocuous call to a wrong number into large damages, the judge said.

"The responsible company will reduce its exposure dramatically by taking proactive steps to mitigate damages, while its competitor, who unthinkingly robo-dials the same person hundreds of time over many months without pausing to wonder why it cannot reach him, cannot complain about much higher liability," the judge wrote.

King's lawyer, Sergei Lemberg, said his client is delighted.

He said the decision sends a message to consumers to "stop taking it on the chin" when robocalls don't stop and a message to companies that it's necessary to pay attention to human beings, even when technology is used to make repeated calls.

"Millions of U.S. consumers get robocalls. Only a few of them take it a step forward and get a lawyer," the Stamford, Connecticut, attorney said.

Hellerstein! He's the one that's handled all the 9/11 widow's cases. His son lives on an illegal kibbutz in Israel. He's a Jew through and through. You definitely need to include him in the very long list of Jews involved in 9/11.

Oh, wait, all the Jews in the WTC ran back INTO the building to save goyim. Such noble people.

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Thankfully, I wasn't there that morning, Eichmann, but it's my understanding that, with the exception of the police and firefighters on scene, the urge to exit the towers pretty much transcended race, religion, gender or sexual orientation.

Say, what about those five dancing Mossad agents arrested after being witnessed videotaping and celebrating the WTC collapse? INTERESTING.

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Okay, now this one's easy to explain. The Mossad agents were relieved that the air-to-ground missiles (which they had mounted under the wings of the remotely controlled jet liners whose passengers had previously been offloaded and were now being executed in a CIA hangar) launched into the towers at precisely the moment they had intended. It was a technological coup that they pulled off and I think the joy they displayed is completely understandable.

Okay, now this one's easy to explain. The Mossad agents were relieved that the air-to-ground missiles (which they had mounted under the wings of the remotely controlled jet liners whose passengers had previously been offloaded and were now being executed in a CIA hangar) launched into the towers at precisely the moment they had intended. It was a technological coup that they pulled off and I think the joy they displayed is completely understandable.

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How long did Israeli-owned companies strive to get the WTC security contract? All the better to spray the support surfaces with nanothermite, my pretty. The WTC didn't just collapse, it was disintegrated.